Toy pistol



April 5, 1938. A ES 2,112,946

TOY PISTOL Filed Jan. 15, 1936 Patented Apr. 5, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

My invention relates to toy guns, and has for its object to provide a toy gun for children which will shoot a perforate projectile at any desired target.

A further object is toprovide a toy gun and projectile which will be compact, easily built, easily played with, and which projectile will be provided with a colored streamer to make it easier to find.

A further object is to provide a small compact powerful toy gun which will be highly eflicient, cheap to manufacture, and of such simplified construction as to make it have a long life in the hands of a rough child.

These objects I accomplish with the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which similar numerals and letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views and as described in the specification forming a part of this application and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing in which I have shown my toy Figure 1 is a side elevation.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the gun with the power spring compressed showing the projectile ready for discharge.

Figure 3 is a plan view of Figure 2, with the projectile removed.

Figure 4 is an end view of the gun from the discharge or muzzle end.

Figure 5 is a side view of a modified spring compression or cocking device.

In the drawing I have shown the handle of the gun to represent an automatic pistol handle A, with a barrel or shaft 5, made of a rod inserted into the flat face 6, of the handle A. A trigger 9 is provided made of two ends 1 and 8 inserted into the lower front side of the handle A. The top portion of the trigger 9 is made semicircular with the top curved section adapted to engage over the rear end loop l5 of the spring compression saddle member I 3. The spring compression saddle member I3 is made with two spaced apart loop members I4 and I5 projecting thereabove at each end thereof joined together by a single bar along the lower side.

These loops are slidable on the barrel shaft and a power spring I2 is coiled around the shaft between the end loop l4 and a stop loop Ill. The stop loop i0 is made by securing two ends II of a wire to the handle A and having the medial portion encircle the shaft 5 suflicient distance ahead of the trigger 9 to allow for compression of the spring l2 between the stop loop l0 and the end loop l4 and to allow the rear end loop [5 to pass under and be engaged by the curved or sew-circular portion of the trigger 9 compressing the spring and. cooking the gun ready for shooting. To release the spring and 5 fire the gun the ends 1 are compressed by the child against the handle. This raises the trigger 9 from the rear end loop l5 and allows the compressed spring I2 to expand suddenly throwing the projectile from the end of the shaft 5 10 with great force.

The projectile for the device shown as B is made similar in form to a large bead with a hollow or central bore therethrough to fit the shaft 5. Depending from said bead I provide a streamer formed of a thin member I and a thicker member 2 said streamer to fly through the air with the projectile and enable the shooter to see where the projectile is going and to find it after it has hit the object and fallen to the ground.

In Figure 5 I have shown a modified spring compression member as D with a loop [4 on one end thereof and a like loop I5 on the other end similar to the loops l4 and I5 of the member 13.

Depending from the bottom side of the frame I provide a cooking handle DI which may be grasped by the child and used to pull back on the frame D to compress the spring l2 until the loop 15' engages under the trigger 9 at which time the spring is ready for use again.

Having thus described my invention I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim:

1. In a toy gun of the class described, the combination of a handle; a shaft fitted into the end of the handle to act as the gun barrel; a trigger secured to the handle having the top end extended up and around the top of the shaft in a semicircular loop; a spring compression stop having a loop surrounding the shaft against which loop the compression spring is engaged when cooking the gun, said loop being supported by wires secured into the sides of the handle; a spring compression member carried on said shaft with the ends of the spring formed in loops surrounding the shaft, one loop inside the compression stop and the other loop outside the stop, said inner loop to be engaged under the trigger when the spring is compressed for firing; and a compression spring carried between the stop and the outside loop of the compression member.

2. In a toy gun for shooting projectiles, the combination with a handle of a shaft extended forwardly from the top end thereof to act as the gun barrel; a compression spring carried on a trigger mounted to said handle near the lower end thereof with the body of the trigger extending up the handle with a curved portion at the top end to engage over the top of the rear loop of the spring compression saddle member to hold 5 the spring compressed.

JOSEPH YATES. 

